Palabra language version

Here you can get an information about other language versions of Palabra.

Language version list:

No

Language

Translation author

Download

1

Japanese

Volunteer needed

Needs some additions

1

Spain

Volunteer needed

Needs some additions

How to make language version yourself?

If the version you need isn't yet available, you can make it yourself easily
by using common text editor. Just go to the Palabra installation directory
(usually C:\Program Files\Palabra) and go to lang subdirectory. Select one
existing language version (e.g. palabra.pl.lang) which will be a basis for
your translation and open it in any text editor supporting Unicode.

Explanations

Comments begins after ";" character

Text of each UI element is described by pair <UI control name> = <type>:<text>
Where only one type is currently allowed - "str" which means Unicode text.

Controls in some windows (e.g. Configuration, Lesson Editor) can be equipped with tooltip help.
To define a help text, the next line have to started with "?=" charactrs followed by context help itself.

Windows control names are dots separated and usually the first element stands for form (window) name,
the second one stands for control name itself and the third one is a property name to be set (usually Text).
Note the prefix of control name which describes type of the form control.

There are following prefixes used:

gbox

Group box

lb

Label

btn

Button

chk

Check button

mi

Menu item

rbtn

Radio button

tsi

Tool strip menu item (like Menu item)

If an UI element name consists of two elemets only then it refers to a form name (caption).

Some items in the translation file are additionally commented

After finishing the work a translation file have to be stored under palabra.<language_prefix>.lang name,
where <language_prefix> is an abbreviated language name. List of all availabe languages
is attached to the .NET Framework System.Globalization.CultureInfo class help and can be
reached here.
A new translation file have to be placed in the same directory as rest of .lang files.
Palabra has to be restarted in order to be able to set a newly translated user interface.
It is strongly adviced to check if everything was correctly translated and if the translation
strings are not too long.